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If you have a 3D printer at home, what will you make?

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I'd like to know what ideas you have and you'd make if you have a 3D printer at home.

:cool
 
Nothing that requires accuracy

My brother has one, and everything he's printed has these little streaks and micro-grooves all over it. Plus none of the consumer-level printers can print metals to my knowledge, so what's the point?
 
Really cool stuff
 
You had to be big shots didn't you. You had to show off. When are you gonna learn that people will like you for who you are, not for what you can give them...

Just don't forget to plug in the doll! :laughing
 
Reli said:
Nothing that requires accuracy

My brother has one, and everything he's printed has these little streaks and micro-grooves all over it. Plus none of the consumer-level printers can print metals to my knowledge, so what's the point?
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Your myopia is astounding. Plastic makes a pretty good casting plug for starters, and scaling up your solid model to account for thermal shrinkage is easy.

A net printed finished part is the dream, sure, but there are plenty of ways to utilize them short of that
 
auntiebling said:
Your myopia is astounding.
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:laughing

As for 3D printing, I've been looking into it myself, but the reviews of many "home" units basically make the typical buyer of a sub $1000 printer look like a beta tester. :| I'll give it a bit more time. In the meanwhile, I picked up a basic resin casting kit from Taps this past weekend and will be hunting up small simple parts to practice my fledgling resin casting skills on. :thumbup
 
Chinese puzzles
miniatures for gaming like 40k, fantasy, DnD etc etc….
a bolt and nut to see if it can thread
a heart for Erin
a fork, spoon or knife
Did I say knife? I meant evil karambit!
a cup
chess/checker pieces
something that involves gears to once again see if it works smoothly
vacuum parts!
I can go on and on
 
whatever will keep paranoid upper middle class liberals awake at night :laughing
 
I'm not getting a 3D printer until it's capable of printing more 3D printers.

Anything less fails to live up to the expectations created by Star Trek. Even TOS. :x
 
Entoptic said:
Chinese puzzles
miniatures for gaming like 40k, fantasy, DnD etc etc….
a bolt and nut to see if it can thread
a heart for Erin
a fork, spoon or knife
Did I say knife? I meant evil karambit!
a cup
chess/checker pieces
something that involves gears to once again see if it works smoothly
vacuum parts!
I can go on and on
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Very doable but you have to loosen up the clearances quite a bit.

GiorgioFurioso said:
I'm not getting a 3D printer until it's capable of printing more 3D printers.

Anything less fails to live up to the expectations created by Star Trek. Even TOS. :x
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?Makerbot? had that as o e of it's design goals. Might have been the reprap
 
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